Finally, we got a richly colorful sunrise, the first one of December. Yesterday, we had a huge crowd of swans, and today they were entirely gone, from this side of the lake anyway. I thought I heard them in the distance. Maybe over by the terrace and the frat houses. But where we were the coots had reestablished cootville. Walking back, I thought I saw an eagle, and a bit later I heard an unusual bird cry. Eagles don't sound eagle-y to me. But it was an eagle. In fact, 3 eagles!
Meade caught the birds:
Tomorrow, it will be difficult to get out at all. The National Weather Service is saying "wind chills as low as 29 below expected." That's a little crazy!
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I guess you don't get a thrill out of being below zero weather. I'd probably just go out for 15 minutes, just to experience it. Of course, you need to dress properly.
It is still mid 40s here. Heck, the other day a young lady ran by in shorts and a halter top. It all depends on the jet stream, if it runs to the north, it is warmish, if it dips to the south, it freezes.
I don't understand why Trump MAGA idiots are so vehemently opposed to modern movies and TV series. Have they even heard or watched Landman? I think they don't even have a clue about modern culture and entertainment. They should probably go back to watching Lawrence Welk on Saturday nights with their grandparents.
A couple of updates today on this day where the media consensus was Democrats have already won midterms here in December Trump is in trouble, and Althouse favourite Kathy Griffin proclaimed Trump will die soon: First, don’t expect an Altpost but the high road Democrats of yesterday pooped the bed today with greasy Presidential favourite Newsom took a low blow at Elon Musk with ‘sorry your daughter hates you.’ Not very Presidential but you’ll hear it here not at all…
Clyde's Top 15 Favorite "New" Songs of 2025 - Honorable Mentions - (Part 2 of 5) - The Ataris - "Car Song" - Non-album single (2025)
The Ataris are a punk rock band that formed in 1996 in Anderson, Indiana. They have had a lot of lineup changes over the years, with the only constant being singer/songwriter/guitarist Kris Roe. They went into the studio this year to record their first album of new material since 2007, and while the album has not come out yet, they did release this single in May, dedicating it to Roe's father, who had passed away recently. He was a big fan of the band, and they put out a special edition 7" vinyl version of the single that contained a bit of Roe's father's ashes, which is more than a bit macabre. This song is more of a hard rock song than the band's punk rock roots, but this video is pure punk.
https://youtu.be/fT3qkX9TqLU?si=zV2G1BSaxf5_RlJy
Whether it's Obama being photographed in a tan suit or Trump being photographed with underage girls at the home of a notorious sex trafficker. Both presidents have appeared in some embarrassing pictures.
And so it begins...... Let's be clear there are many prominent people on both sides of the aisle that were complicit with Epstein. Part of why he got away with it for so long. Release everything and let the chips fall where they may.
…and two, the Althouse commentariat proclamation of ‘the future is here’ with Waymo, well one endangered passengers when it drove into an active police action. Oopsie. They really do make us all safer, though…
I always liked swans. But it seems the "Mute Swans" are real bastards:
"Mute swans are voracious feeders of SAV, with each adult swan consuming up to 8 pounds per day, and destroying much more in the process. SAV is an important part of aquatic ecosystems as it provides food and shelter for native waterfowl, fish, and invertebrates. By consuming massive amounts of SAV, mute swans negatively impact the structure and function of aquatic habitats native species depend upon. Additionally, mute swans are aggressive towards other birds, as well as people. Mute swans disrupt nesting activity of native waterfowl by chasing birds from their nests and have been reported to physically injure, or even kill, other birds. Mutes swans have been reported to attack people and, in some cases, have critically injured children and pets."
Things are going so well it may be time before Christmas to re-introduce Kamala Harris to the American people (and to the non-American voters but shhh…)
Eagles screech. There's an eagle nest above us in the tall white pines at our summer home, and the screeching can get constant. It gets quite annoying, especially at 5 AM.
“I guess you don't get a thrill out of being below zero weather. I'd probably just go out for 15 minutes, just to experience it. Of course, you need to dress properly.”
LOL! Anyone who has lived in Wisconsin for a a few winters knows full well what those extreme cold temps with extreme wind chills feel like and there’s no need to experience it again just to say you did.🥶
Matt Walsh just went on Tucker's show.
Meanwhile Instapundit keeps up the Israel first crusade on behalf of the Murdoch brothers.
This is all cleanup and rear guard bullshit now. America first MAGA won. Again.
Please don't say "wind chill". Don't need another lecture from hardin.
Don't worry about Hollywood. They're still making enough money to chop off children's genitals. The important stuff is still getting done.
Those orange-pink clouds always tempt me to lick the screen.
Don't judge me.
RCOCEAN II said...
I always liked swans. But it seems the "Mute Swans" are real bastards:
Chesapeake Bay had a Mute Swan problem. Little old ladies thought they were cute, but they we chowing down on the SAV. The Maryland DNR and Virginia DENREC got together and held a quiet and successful campaign to eliminate them.
Glorious photos!!!
Funny stuff, narr@7:26PM!
Your post reflects a lot of white supremacy, lonejustus@7:00PM.
The last two pics
Yes the future cia director and fmr treasury secretary visiting with epstein along with master of thd universe gates as well as ehud barak
Achilles said..Matt Walsh just went on Tucker's show.--
Well, good for you and all of your Jew hatred MAGA followers. You and your ilk can join all of the MAGA Jew hating followers who will lose the the next midterm elections. Thank you very much.
Landman as with yellowstone has some of thd dallas mien but then sheridan goes over the top
Andy garcia slumming as a cartel leader who is supposed to be an analog to billy bobs tommy norris
They all have to be tortured antiheros
This is ironic because lorimar was designed as a mob tax shelter
Clarkson’s Farm is great. Looking forward to season 5.
I imagine you thought you had something there
Sheridan silly land acknowledgement notwithstanding he made gil birmingham a compelling villain well more than danny huston or neal mcdonough
Garcia did a lot of villain roles in order to pursue his passion projects the golden city and for the glory
“Yesterday, we had a huge crowd of swans, and today they were entirely gone, from this side of the lake anyway. I thought I heard them in the distance. Maybe over by the terrace and the frat houses. “
Yes, back in the days of I Tappa Kegga we observed the swans coming over the terrace.
The walls are closing in, thats so 2017.
And yes, of course, we sowed what we reaped.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mRnwzOPPLdQ
lonejustice: "They should probably go back to watching Lawrence Welk on Saturday nights with their grandparents."
Even that's not safe - they might get the episode with One Toke Over The Line:
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/12/one-toke-over-line.html
CC, JSM
Whether it was Tucker Carlson asking questions or Steve Witkoff answering them, the work of both men gave Russian propagandists a day off.
Tucker Carlson is a grifter who has no real values and will say anything to get attention.
I tried read to lonejustice’s original post. I’m thinking he nodded off while trying to type. A veritable blank slate.
Of course he has nothing to say
The word is logorhea
Cole hauser evolution from a sleazy heavy to almost a hero
Much like his father who had similar roles in the 80s
"I tried read to lonejustice’s original post."
It starts out: "I don't understand..."
Sounds about right.
Waymos need to be programmed with thd laws of robotics
Andrew garfield will bf playing semi android sam altmam
I robot probably correctly predicted how these laws would turn out
There is antihuman streak in many of these teleplays like alien earth where noah hawley projects his rage a hundred years in the future
Where’s Global Warming when we need it. Must be Trump’s fault.
And he subverts the whole alien mythos if the facehuggers were here before why would you risk bringing them back
Lets not speak of what they have done with roddenberrys vision which had mostly held through ds9 and voyager
The show runners didnt hate people
They could do space opera with passion marc alaimo was one of the best realized villains since khan as dukat
They should probably go back to watching Lawrence Welk on Saturday nights with their grandparents.
Sonja Henie’s tutu! A wonerful wonerful idea…so many tight sweaters…
You can predict the weather by watching young women in halter tops? Who knew?
I know you could, at one time, guage the economy by young womens skirt lengths, but ever since they all started wearing pants that metric is past its time.
What has come since is like painting with crayon
Bald eagle vocalizations and calls.
Red-tailed buzzard (Buteo jamaicensis) calls. Popular media often dub in these sounds as the vocalizations of the bald eagle.
…the waymo thing in on Spike’s Car Radio this week if anyone can figure out why it won’t hyperspace..er…hyperlink
Who was going to know the difference
Thd eagle has a more distinct cry
The appreciation for the female form without being lurid
My complaint about modern noir leavjng to the imagination including hope
Nothing to the imagination excluding hope
Note the 1986 version of running man vs the modern analogue
Which of course will not make anywhere near what the original tdid
Lets not speak of what they did with superman (the respect for humanity is lacking in much of this work)
narciso said...
“Lets not speak of what they have done with Roddenberry’s vision, which had mostly held through DS9 and Voyager.”
I thought Enterprise Season 4 was good, too.
Yes that was a good run, then came the abramsverse
Breathtaking photos. Thank you for showing up, day in, day out.
With stephen kings source material there is rarely any hope, look with mick farris did with the stand
Here in Vegas it was a balmy sunny 73 degrees yesterday. We took the boat out and had lunch in the middle of Lake Mead over 400 feet of cool, clear and amazingly calm water. Very few other boats in sight. We virtually owned the largest reservoir in the country for the afternoon. Really a beautiful day in every way. We still prefer it over 100 with the water in the 80's. We've evolved backwards here into amphibians and we need warm water to thrive.
narciso said...
“Sheridan silly land acknowledgement notwithstanding he made gil birmingham a compelling villain well more than danny huston or neal mcdonough”
I haven’t seen Yellowstone, but I have trouble picturing Neal McDonough as a villain. I always picture him as Lt Hawke, Buck Compton, or Dum Dum Dugan.
Ok people, I personally watched the st tos on a blinking b/w tv receiver on over the air broadcast, so don’t told me what. But my grandmother turned it off when she caught me, because of the hot girls.
Hes done this in other series like justified and several films like reds
Although he was more amoral then immoral and gets his comeuppance
Elon Musk seems to be taking SpaceX public next year. A good idea, to do it now when there is no political risk. If the political winds change SpaceX is likely to be pecked to death, as it was pre 2024 election.
Its interesting that the left hated Musk even when he was a major contributor to "climate" programs. You can check out most CA home solar setups and find a Tesla power bank.
This is a sociological hatred.
I have seen it firsthand.
SpaceX and Tesla was constantly being bureaucratically harassed long before he had anything to do with Twitter, or expressed a political opinion.
The left and the US bureaucracy absolutely hates engineering, and engineers. Andreesen points it out in his famous interview.
narciso said...
“Yes that was a good run, then came the abramsverse”
It was good to see Star Trek on the big screen again, but his movies were Star Wars movies with Star Trek characters.
Oh they do with a passion,
Well kirk and spock were entirely too emo for their own good
Josephbleau said...
“Ok people, I personally watched the st tos on a blinking b/w tv receiver on over the air broadcast, so don’t told me what. But my grandmother turned it off when she caught me, because of the hot girls.”
You should have told her you were watching the hemlines to gauge the state of the economy.
Basic scientific research lol
There are Waymos everywhere in Vegas, often three or more in the same block, at least around the strip anyway. I want to take one, but they don't come to my neighborhood. I trust them, just like I do most technology that's not dedicated to telling lies, and I trust them more than human drivers, including myself. One Waymo ran a police emergency, like human drivers have done a thousand times. That doesn't bother me. At least the fix is straightforward. Not so much with badly programmed humans.
Yeah i probably trust human drivers a little less, i dont know how vegas driving differs from florida but rules seem to be suggestions
Yeah the company reset wont take, with people
Maybe im too cynical about people in particular
I try not to be, and then you see the crazy lengths some will contort themselves into
This will manifest itself in 3.2.1
bagoh20 said...
“…We still prefer it over 100 with the water in the 80's. We've evolved backwards here into amphibians and we need warm water to thrive.”
So you’re turning into amphibians and have consistently high temperatures. Any chance your kids are all boys or all girls?
But they will get better (obligatory holy grail reference)
“ You should have told her you were watching the hemlines to gauge the state of the economy.”
This was my maternal GM and she was not interested in research, she already knew everything. My paternal gm was a Tennessee Scot who was a bloodthirsty advocate of Hardee and Cleburne and taught me about the civil war, she gave me a 6 pounder solid shot cannonball from the battle of Springfield which I put in my father in laws 105 artillery casing ash tray from Korea.
He was commanding A co, 38rh inf rgt, 2 inf div. and was at old baldy and held the Jamestown line in the I corps sector.
I don't understand why Trump MAGA idiots are so vehemently opposed to modern movies and TV series.
Do you ever get tired of completely making things up nobody said and then insulting them for something you pulled out of your ass?
The other day you suggested Trump may commit mass murder of his political opponents.
What in the fuck is wrong with you?
@WallStreetApes
Jeffrey Epstein files reveal a woman named Kathy Ruemmler was one of the people who had the most communication with Epstein
Over 100 emails and more than 50 meetings in just 5 years after he was a convicted sex offender
She was White House counsel to Barack Obama.
"I trust them more than human drivers, including myself."
The problem with human drivers, in my experience, is not you or me or the Uber drivers, who are, in my experience pretty good. It's the one in a million drunk or teen texter who veers onto the wrong side of the road or runs a red light. Is being in a Waymo any better protection against that than if you or some other trustworthy human is driving? Maybe, but I doubt it.
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